In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for “grave and systematic violations” of disabled people’s rights. The situation for disabled people in Britain has continued to deteriorate as the Tory government’s obsessive drive to slash public spending, whilst scapegoating the most disadvantaged in society, continues. Punitive welfare regimes, the removal of …

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BY JOHN PRING ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2015 Listen The United Nations is carrying out an unprecedented inquiry into “systematic and grave violations” of disabled people’s human rights by the UK government, Disability News Service (DNS) can finally confirm. DNS revealed last August that the UK appeared to have become the first country to face a …

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